COM10006 Week 4 Lecture

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Week 4: Plagiarism, citing and referencing (and focus on gendered subjects)More Examples: Perspectives on Gender Differences in EducationDrawing on Other People's Work in the body of your Writing through Citation: Why?Three Themes from the Research Literature Explored in the Report1. Prevalent idea that men are innately superior to women in maths, i.e. gendered cognitive differences

2. Women's lack of interest in these subjects

3. The environment of these jobs for women.now lets look closely at an example of how this report draws on sources ...BECAUSE An essay is a synthesis of existing knowledge to create new knowledge and...

An essay is an account of your research process: it is research into an academic area.

To "springboard" from to introduce / support / refute a perspectiveTo offer evidence that there has been research which has demonstrated your pointTo use someone else's superior / authoritative way of explaining.Drawing on Other People's Work in the body of your Writing: How?SummarisingDistilling down someone else's ideas in your own words, always with a citation.ParaphrasingExplaining the exact details of someone's idea in your own words, always with a citationQuotingUsing someone's exact words, always with quotation marks and a citation. Should not stand alone but should be introducedReferencing is the process of attributing information or ideas which you draw on in your work to their original source.

Nicholas, L 2014, Plagiarism Sucks, Swinburne Press, Melbourne.download and print the quickguide PDFCitationthis is a way to attribute ideas in the body of yourwork to the author. it involves using this formula:

'the action or practice of taking and submitting or presenting the thoughts, writings or other work of someone else as though it is your own work'

Swinburne has very clear plagiarism information

Referencing: Why?Plagiarism is a terrible idea! It can lose you your degree or job like this guy..... http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s3587199.htm

or this guy.... the FORMER president of Hungary

"The university said whole passages of his thesis about the modern Olympic Games had been copied from the work of two other academics." (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17586128)

and more to the point, as experienced markers we can tell!!!!Consequences of PlagiarismExample of use of someone else's ideasTaken from http://www.latrobe.edu.au/students/learning/allu-documents/Using-References-and-Evidence-to-Support-Your-Arguments-Edt.docxEssay question: Can anything be done to reduce student plagiarism?

Student's opinion: Australian universities could teach students how to use citations in academic texts.

‘Institutions have a responsibility to put arrangements in place to support those still developing necessary skills.’

This is the researcher’s voice

How could the student use this in their essay?Which is best?Note from original: ‘Institutions have a responsibility to put arrangements in place to support those still developing necessary skills.’1. Universities have a responsibility to put arrangements in place to support students still developing necessary skills, and I agree with this.

2. Institutions have a responsibility to put arrangements in place to support those still developing necessary skills and to teach students how to use citations in academic texts (Macdonald & Carroll, 2006, p.243).

3. Australian universities could teach students how to use citations in academic texts. Macdonald and Carroll (2006, p. 243) argue that, ‘Institutions have a responsibility to put arrangements in place to support those still developing necessary skills’.1. This is plagiarism because

the student used some of the exact words of the original but did not cite2. This is plagiarism because

even though the student has used a citation but has used the exact wording. without quotation marks the reader would assume that this is the student's voice paraphrasing the author.This is correct. The student has stated their own position on the topic without citation, the reader is clear it is the student's voice.

The student has clearly introduced the quotation as someone else's conclusion to back up their own argumentRe-cap:

Women made up 58.2% of applications in Australia in 2012.

(DIICSRTE 2012)

So what are the differences? (You will need to look wider for statistics here, there are some relevant articles linked in the list of suggested readings)

The 2012 article ‘Gender and stereotypes in motivation to study computer programming for careers in multimedia’ (Doubé & Lang 2012) states that:

in the Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies at Swinburne in 2009, 17% of the students were women.

So there are differences in type of courses chosen according to gender.

Lets look at how these authors write about other sources......Kinds of language to use when presenting someone else’s academic perspectiveDoubé, W & Lang, C 2012, ‘Gender and stereotypes in motivation to study computer programming for careers in multimedia’, Computer Science Education, vol.22, no.1, pp.63-78.

Be modest about what any citation can claim. Do not state something as fact when it is perspective or interpretation or proposition.

Be sure to make it clear to the author what / whose source you are referring to at all times

Bring it back to your voice: explain what this means for your essayAnother Example: AAUW Report 'Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics'This report is much like an essay which you will write in that it mostly uses other people's statistics and research, i.e. it is a discussion and report on the findings of secondary sources. But towards new knowledge: it has a clear research question.Seeks reasons for at the root of the lower representation of women in these subject areas